Never Washed for 75 Years.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 4994, 28 December 1906, Page 4

Never Washed for 75 Years.

Tlits famous Italian chemist ami drucj expert, Frcdi-riga Oe-rboni, ha* created a sensation by openly acknowledging that hj never washed in the seventy-fivu years of his lite. "My mother! may -have washed nu« whiK* J was unconscious of Ivor earr\ in^s on, but water never touched my body after I came to my scn.svs." says the scientist. In defence of his anil-wash crusade h-e uuotes Dc Dordova, tte great war hvro, who at one time, did not separate himself from his clothes for three lonsr years. "When a hoy," he continues, "1 could never umlerst-and why people should bat ho, unless they were sick. Now I know : it's a foolish habit like the toothbrush habit, the •discarding of boots at bedtime, etc." The doctor furnish I?**1 ?** medical 'testimony : to prove that despite -his seventy-five years he is hale and hearty— "never knew a tlay's sitkness in my lrfe.*' At the sanie Unit liiis i'i*iC'ii«Js and jr«slwt"ives coaiirm the assertion that ho never I bathed or washed any separate part ! of his 'body. "Five years ago the lady 1 am livmg with furnished me with three towels ;. they are still oil the rack, old ami yellow, but unused." Continuing, tfe <loctor rails against the washing habit, as causing an immense aggregate loss, of *".tne. '•••harmful to any nation, esiHcially to a poor oim like the Italian." Furthermore, he iig-ur»."s out thut thy civilised nations losv millions tt initially by buikliiig batl>rooms, fibs, by unnvcessiiry ])luml>i'i;4 and for wash bpwls, tooth and skin brushes, sponges, "etc. '"'I rtv" peat that I n-iver wasted a drop ol (Wafer or an ' oi.nco of soaj. on mv ( ' W( -8 IU " body/" :h' conlimu's : ■ i i\su that I ne\-er sufTered loss of sleep or appetite." it will be nofinil that the doctor says nothing about the apifclile 01 friciwis and neighbours. His theory seems ti» lx- Uiat microle eats niicivbi\ and t4iat bacilli devour bacilli, while the uiimyta of dirt triumphs over all ; which -Ihcorv o\t-rtluM\vs tin; maxim that -clean.liiu'ss is next to godliness." —